{"id":294,"date":"2009-01-23T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/playing-horde-and-mercs-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:13:00","slug":"playing-horde-and-mercs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/playing-horde-and-mercs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Horde and Mercs 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of Gears of War 2&#8217;s Horde mode the last couple weeks for a contest that we&#8217;re having over at AGE.  So far my team is winning but it is pretty close between us and second.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;ve not been playing Gears 2 I&#8217;ve been working my way through Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.  Like the first Mercs game some of the missions are repetitive, but they are all open to be completed pretty much however you want.  Personally I never get tired of getting in a big truck and ramming it at full speed into whatever I&#8217;m suppose to be destroying.  It has a very large open world to play in with a ton of side missions that you can do as many or as few as you want.  Hopefully I&#8217;ll get it wrapped up in the next few days because LoTR: Conquest is sitting here waiting to be played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing a lot of Gears of War 2&#8217;s Horde mode the last couple weeks for a contest that we&#8217;re having over at AGE. So far my team is winning but it is pretty close between us and second. When I&#8217;ve not been playing Gears 2 I&#8217;ve been working my way through Mercenaries 2: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}